23 April 2008

-- OTTAWA -- The RCMP have beefed up security around Immigration Minister Diane Finley in response to threats from criminal groups that oppose her efforts to block foreign strippers from entering Canada, federal officials said yesterday.

Officials said the extra security flows directly from Bill C-17, which would limit the number of work visas given to foreign strippers.

Under the previous Liberal regime it was full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes... despite the unsavory nature of the business.

In 2004, then-immigration-minister Judy Sgro cancelled a blanket authorization for work permits to strippers after it was revealed that her office granted a visa extension to a Romanian stripper who had worked on her election campaign.

Another former Liberal immigration minister, Joe Volpe, said that criminal groups are involved in strip clubs and have “aggressively lobbied” federal civil servants to obtain work visas for foreign strippers.

Yeah... I don't think I'd put extra strippers at the top of my agenda.

But then again... I'm a Conservative.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Now the Conservatives plan to stop moving strippers to the front of the immigration line and try to prevent exploitation. Again, the Liberals are against this?"

"We've got immigrant doctors driving cabs and badly needed tradespeople not even able to get into the country. But Liberals want to ensure the flow of new strippers and exploited sex trade workers continues!"

"I guess that group must form a core part of their voter base?"

And another...

"The Conservatives should leave well enough alone and let foreign exotic dancers into Canada and out of countries where they face regular exploitation, says Guidy Mamann, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in immigration issues."

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I'll never understand the screwed up thinking of Liberals on immigration issues (well, and every other issue).

First, we can't get enough immigrants with the skills that the country currently needs. Therefore the Conservatives introduce a bill to allow increased selection about immigrants to fast-track the trades we need. Seems logical to those of us with brains? Apparently not to a Liberal.

Now the Conservatives plan to stop moving strippers to the front of the immigration line and try to prevent exploitation. Again, the Liberals are against this?

We've got immigrant doctors driving cabs and badly needed tradespeople not even able to get into the country. But Liberals want to ensure the flow of new strippers and exploited sex trade workers continues! I guess that group must form a core part of their voter base?

Unreal how unfettered immigration has let into this country the kind of thugs one reads about in dysfunctional nations... the kind who think nothing of threatening elected officials who seek to impose the law. And this time, the jihadists have little to do with it. Think Russian mafia - not Tony Soprano's kind of thugs: he'd be on our side for this one... the russkie mobsters are just plain psycho.

Okay Jeff. I'll look past your obvious trolling and simply ask... if it's not "really about the strippers", what, in your red world, is it? And I'll even go so far as to say that I agree with you in that I don't think it's about strippers at all. It's about our fundamentally flawed immigration system. It can't get revamped fast enough for me...

"The Conservatives should leave well enough alone and let foreign exotic dancers into Canada and out of countries where they face regular exploitation, says Guidy Mamann, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in immigration issues."

Got that, folks? Those Hells Angels don't regularly exploit strippers. I mean, they get on day a month off, for instance...

i enjoyed the link to my site meter.no, i do not enjoy the lively traffic flow that you do. however, i posted once last month.... how many times a day do you have to cut and paste to boost your sad little ego?